Four different causes (climatic change, demographic structure, resource availability and technology, and social context) have been suggested to account for aspects of the appearance of and variation in maize-based farming ...

This dissertation is an ethnoecological study of land and botanical resource use in the French northern alpine commune of Les Allues. It is based on at least two years of field research and extensive use of regional archives. ...

In the Dordogne region of southwestern France, a broadening of the diet is known to have occurred toward the end of the Pleistocene, with diets heavily dependent on large ungulates being replaced by those heavily dependent ...

The dissertation is concerned with how the negotiation of conventions of public discourse correlates to changing political economy. It focuses on Cambodia during the period immediately before and after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored ...

In this dissertation Cambodian refugee use of traditional and Western healing systems to prevent or alleviate mental illness are examined. Chrisman's (1977) Health Seeking Process model is used as a guide for data collection ...

This dissertation is an ethnography of a therapeutic community for the mentally ill conducted in the US in 1996. It begins with a review of the experimental movement in psychiatry that occurred during the late 1960s and ...

Models created by archaeologists to explain the development of cultural complexity on the north Pacific coast frequently pose resource intensification, especially of salmon, as a possible cause. However, whether or not ...

Two interdependent lines of thought are now converging into a form of archaeology herein called evolutionary human paleoecology, with a foundation in ecology and Darwinian evolutionism and comprised of variables measurable ...

Corrugated pottery is a unique utility ware made by leaving construction coils unobliterated, and manipulating these exposed coils to produce a rough exterior surface. Ancestral Puebloan populations in the American Southwest ...

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the functional morphology and ecology of the prosimian primates. Napier and Walker's (1967) vertical clinging and leaping hypothesis focused interest on the presence ...

The Book of Mormon, first published by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830 in Palmyra, New York, draws upon colonial and antebellum biblical hermeneutics and nineteenth century myths of the origin and fate of an ancient American ...

Japanese "war orphans" are people of Japanese parentage who were stranded in China as children following the end of World War Two. This dissertation discusses war orphans in terms of their historical circumstances in China, ...

Many archaeologists have argued that reductions in the energetic returns provided by wild resources led people in the past to devote more time to farming. Despite the popularity of this explanation, however, no one has ...

Late Pleistocene human adaptations in eastern North America have long been treated as essentially homogeneous and like the highly specialized adaptive strategies practiced by contemporary Paleo-indian groups on the southern ...